History & Archaeology

Mysterious Bronze Age City revealed

Aerial view of the 3400 year old ruins of Mitanni city. © Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen/ KAO Exciting finds in the wake of...

Prehistoric monster shark may be extinct due to white sharks

The two apex predators occupied similar places in the food chain. And the mighty and much larger megalodon ultimately lost out. Scientists are...

Ancient settlement sites discovered in Amazonia

Buildings of the Casarabe culture in Cotoca. © Prümers et al./ Nature, CC by 4.0 Archaeologists have found eleven previously unknown settlements of the...

Breathing reveals that the Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded

One of the oldest questions in paleontology has finally been answered. For decades scientists debated a pressing question: were dinosaurs warm-blooded, like birds, or...

Where did Herod’s alabaster come from?

Herod's bathtub found at Herodium © Amos Frumkin/ The Hebrew University of Jerusalem King Herod, notorious from biblical texts, not only initiated numerous magnificent building...

Winged goddesses revealed

View of some of the vulture goddesses on the central ceiling area, behind them the northern transom with inscriptions. © Ahmed Amin, Ministry...

Preserving meat: A comparison of old and new methods

© Adobe Stock, Mateusz, #265306473 There are foods that naturally have a very long shelf life. However, meat spoils comparatively quickly and therefore it...

Holy Baal pond instead of an inland port

Excavations at the perimeter wall of the temple precinct of Motya. © Sapienza University of Rome Expedition to Motya/ Antiquity, CC by nc...

The History Of Delta 8 Gummies

If you're like most people, you probably think of Delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) gummies as those delicious, chewy little candies that come in a variety of...

More than 400 large pits discovered near Stonehenge

They are believed to be big game traps built by hunter-gatherers who roamed the area before the famed megalithic monument was erected. Stonehenge is...

The mighty megalodon also had a toothache

A discovered misshapen tooth that belonged to this dreaded shark shows that even this giant predator had to watch out for some fish. You...

Largest cave paintings discovered in North America

Anthropomorphic figure from the Alabama cave. © S. Alvarez/ J. Simek, Antiquity In a cave in Alabama, researchers have uncovered hundreds of pre-Columbian rock art,...

Medieval hand grenades?

A fragment of the jar from Jerusalem that may have contained explosive material. © 2022 Matheson et al., Creative Commons Attribution License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Already...

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